Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Mar 31 2025, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][4 cores] AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor (Model 1)

* -m in a file name stands for multi-threading or multi-processing

* -i in a file name stands for direct intrinsics usage. (Usage of simd intrinsics via libraries is not counted)

* -ffi in a file name stands for non-stdlib FFI usage

* (You may find time < time(user) + time(sys) for some non-parallelized programs, the overhead is from GC or JIT compiler, which are allowed to take advantage of multi-cores as that's more close to real-world scenarios.)

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.9ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.1
codon 1-m.py 11ms 0.6ms 9.0MB 20ms 0ms codon 0.18.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 349ms 3.0ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 352ms 2.1ms 3.5MB 343ms 0ms go 1.24.1
codon 1.py 1453ms 222ms 9.0MB 1763ms 0ms codon 0.18.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 37ms 0.1ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 38ms 0.7ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
codon 1-m.py 174ms 3.5ms 8.9MB 483ms 0ms codon 0.18.2

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 272ms 4.7ms 39.5MB 260ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 278ms 0.1ms 71.7MB 267ms 0ms go 1.24.1
codon 1-m.py 419ms 4.2ms 47.6MB 723ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
go 2.go 427ms 1.8ms 21.2MB 417ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 742ms 2.8ms 21.6MB 727ms 7ms go 1.24.1
codon 2.py 1525ms 10ms 100.8MB 1833ms 17ms codon 0.18.2

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 53ms 0.1ms 10.1MB 40ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 57ms 2.1ms 21.6MB 50ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 2.go 109ms 2.0ms 4.9MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
codon 1-m.py 127ms 2.6ms 18.5MB 433ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
go 2.go 183ms 1.8ms 6.1MB 170ms 0ms go 1.24.1
codon 2-m.py 394ms 3.1ms 27.1MB 703ms 3ms codon 0.18.2